Gran Turismo 5

Bad news for people who think they’re great drivers because they play games like Gran Turismo 5: you’re not. New research suggests that while playing games may improve reaction time, it also seems to help churn out aggressive drivers. It’s easy to be an aggressive driver in Gran Turismo where damage is minimal (if existent at all), but not when you’re driving down I-95. Read More

Fact: if you install Gran Turismo 5 on your PS3’s hard drive you’ll speed up loading times. Additional fact: if you install Gran Turismo 5 on your PS3’s solid state drive (SSD) you’ll speed up loading times considerably. And yes, you can even try this at home—maybe! Read More

There’s two big stories coming out of November’s NPD numbers. The first is that Microsoft somehow managed to sell more Xbox 360s than Nintendo sold Wiis, with Microsoft selling 1.37 million to Nintendo’s 1.27 million. That’s probably the result of the Kinect. The second is that, yes, Call of Duty: Black Ops sold a whopping 8.4 million units. Good on Activision, swimming… Read More

You should be able to find Gran Turismo 5 in your local store today. That makes today a good day. (It also doesn’t hurt that there’s Champions League today, too.) (Allow me to say the word “today” for the 500th time in four sentences.) Some reviews have popped up online, and I’m going to take 45 seconds to distill some of them for you. Not that it really matters… Read More

“Unboxing” videos are often useless tripe. Oh, look, someone’s opening a box! Up next, watching paint dry! But I will make an exception for the Signature Edition of Gran Turismo 5, which is exclusively available in Europe. Once again, Europe shows America how to enjoy the finer things in life. Read More

Will Gran Turismo 5 ever come out? Sony said a few days ago that the game’s producers, led by Kazunori Yamauchi, wanted a little bit more time to further polish the game, but it assured us the game would be available in time for the holidays. Now there’s word that that might not even happen. Online retailers have started sending notices to people who’ve pre-ordered the… Read More

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Oh, that’s a shame. Sony has announced that Gran Turismo 5, its flagship racer that has been in development for approximately the last 400 years, has been delayed. Yes, Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed. I’m literally shaking my head in amazement right now. Read More

It was first revealed in 2006, it took Sony years to develop it, but now we finally have a release date (at least for Japan): Gran Turismo 5 will go on sale in this country on November 3 [JP]. And not too surprisingly, Sony Japan will be offering a special bundle that includes a PS3 in an “original” color, namely Titanium Blue. Read More

Once again, the Europeans get all the fun. Sony Europe just announced the collector’s edition (technically the Signature Edition) of Gran Turismo 5. It comes with many things! You get the game, obviously, but you also get a “metal sculpted box finished in SLS AMG Obsidian Black”; an “exclusive GT branded SLS AMG 1:43 model car”; a “GT leather wallet… Read More

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Hmm, Nascar… it’s a bit too Southern for my latte-drinking, North-eastern tendencies, but if Yamauchi deems it worthy of Gran Turismo! So behold, the latest trailer of the game. Read More

So… “Data Logger Visualization Technology.” That’s a long and uninformative name. Technology that visualizes… data. Data that was at some point logged. What they’re trying to say is that they loaded up a real race car with monitoring gadgets and took note of a bunch of data — steering, throttle, G-force, and all that stuff — and logged it into… Read More

I love how the word “leak” can apply to anything from Deep Throat to PS3 video game release dates. Such is life. Anyway, the release dates for several Sony video games has supposedly “leaked” to a French site. The big news: expect to see Uncharted 2 on September 30. Oh, and perhaps a Michael Jackson edition of Sing Star this fall. Read More

Because the human eye has an effective “refresh rate” of around 30 frames per second, there is a certain point at which even major increases or decreases in frames per second will have no visible effect. I’d place that number, off the top of my head, around 100fps — at that point your eye isn’t going to “catch” the display in mid-update, as the… Read More

This is something that’s bothered me from the first time I played GT2, and three titles later it’s finally coming. IGN interviewed Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of Gran Turismo, and he finally confirmed that car damage will be coming as early as fall for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.
IGN: We’ve held off from this, but surely everyone’s been asking about damage in Gran Turismo 5. Read More

Today is like therapy for me. First, I admit that the iPhone is sort of great and that I want one and now I’m admitting that I want a PS3. Yikes. Well, it certainly helps when Sony has the exclusive rights to Gran Turismo and GT5 is about to drop. Ugh.
Leaving tradition behind in the dust, Polyphony Digital is including an F1 Ferrari car for you to purchase for 2 million credits. You can… Read More

I’ll be purchasing a PS3 on April 17 because that’s the day GT5: Prologue is hitting store shelves in the US. You can also download via the PlayStation store, but I haven’t found anything that says it will/might be cheaper than the retail version, which is $40 and is currently on pre-order from Amazon. It’s also worth noting that the date, March 18, on Amazon is… Read More